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Research.... Abigail Parta lives in Minneapolis, Minn., and works as the government affairs manager for the Minnesota Growers Association. ... Jamie (Fatheree) Pro has taughr for fo ur years as a fourth– grade teacher at a charter school in El Cajon, Calif.... Karen (Edgar) Rand is an English reacher at Sreele Canyon High School in El Cajon, Calif. ... Belinda Sandoval recently moved to San Francisco and is the assistant director for the office of multicultural recruitment and reten– rion for rhe University of San Francisco. She begins a master's pro– gram in spring.... Todd Vandervort married wife Tisha on May 4, 2002. Todd works as an accountant for lnvitrogen Corp. in Carlsbad, Calif., and lives in Oceanside, Calif. ... Naveen Zaidi graduated from Cornell Law School in 2002. She now works and lives in Manhattan. She is a second-year associate in a corporate law firm.... Christina (Erkenbrack) Zaman is married with a 3-year-old son named Pierce. She opened a restau– rant in Las Vegas in 2003 with her husband. They look forward to opening their next pizzeria in 2005. 1999 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Erin Buchanan is a development director for the nonprofit Orange County Community Housing Corporation.. .. Claudia (Valenzuela) Carrillo and Carlos Carrillo '91 have rhree children, Nadia, 5; Sofia, 3; and Samuel, 10 months. Carlos has been with SBC for seven years as a planning engineer. Claudia serves as rhe local chief of staff to Assemblywoman Shirley Horton. The family has resided in Narional City, Calif., for the past 31h years.... Tamara (Schroeder) Drozda happily lives in Colorado with husband Cliff Drozda. She is the mother of rwo children, Eddie, 3, and Emma, 1. ... Jennifer Jacobson and Evan Hlavacek '98 are "settl ing into life in hot Phoenix." Evan will move back to Indianapolis in January for the Arena Football season where he will play defensive back and wide receiver. ... Kelly Keahey and Brian Patterson were married in Ocrober 2002 in Fresno, Calif. They now reside in Clovis, Calif.... Bridget Leary received her mas– ter's degree in educarion in June

2002 and reaches kindergarten in Sacramento. She and fiancee Anthony Pesce have run three marathons together this year. ... Erin Masaki– McKay celebrated her first anniver– sary in July wirh her husband, USO junior Morgan McKay. Morgan is a transfer student who was scheduled to attend the USO School of Business in the fall. ... Michael Murphy is the navigarion officer aboard the USS Fitzgerald. The ship was deployed in March for an eight– month deployment to rhe Middle Ease. ... Chad Nardiello Q.D. '02) complered an LL.M. in raxation at Georgetown University Law Center. He planned to begin working wirh rhe rax services group at Deloitte and Touche in Los Angeles in September. ... Abigail (Horrocks) Preston and husband Jared have been living in La Verne, Cal if., for the pasr year. In May rhey got a Labrador puppy named Chloe. They were planning a trip to Europe in September and expected to be in Munich for Oktoberfest.... Daniela Reali (J.D. '02) worked fo r Grace Brandon Hollis after grad– uating law school and passing the California state bar exam in 2002. There, she practiced complex litiga– tion, including products liability, employment, personal injury and construction defecr cases. She recently changed law firms and now works for a small plaintiffs' firm in San Diego where she represents plaintiffs in consumer class acrion lawsuits.. .. Angela Richardson is "buying and selling Portland's great homes and condos." She also is involved in property management and invest– ment. ... Ryan Ries is finishing his final year of graduate school at California Institute ofTechnology and expects to graduate in the spring with a Ph.D. in chemistry.... Sherry (Klomp) Stephens is working on a master's degree in education with an emphasis on literacy. She and husband Forest Stephens celebrated their son's first birthday in November... . Kristy Van Doren works in the marketing department ofVans, organizing and executing events and promotions worldwide. She says she has the most fun running into USO alumni, mostly sotority sisters, around the country while working events.

ni. He invires orher alumni in real esrate to call him at (800) 464-5567. .. . Annette Crutchfield just returned from teaching English in Japan for a year. During her sray, she visited South Korea and Thailand, bringing to 12 the number of coun– tries she's seen. She now works as an escrow sales representative for San Diego Escrow.... Susan Erpelding (M.A. '00) is a social work counselor helping people with developmental disabilities. She coaches a girls' bas– ketball club ream called the San Diego Sol. ... Kimberly (Farris) Berg married Brian Berg, a software developer, in Minneapolis on July 20, 2002. Kim runs her own consulting practice in Minneapolis. Clients have included the McKnight Foundarion, the Metropolitan Council and Education/Evolving. She is co-director of rhe Center for Economic Progress, a nonprofit, nonpartisan action rank dedicated to changing how society rhinks and ralks abour women's economic worth and potential. She still sings in her spare time.... Sherry (Reed) Keith and husband Robert just bought a house and Sherry started her second year as an elementary school Spanish teacher in Grapevine, Texas, in August. ... Darcy (Farrell) Lewis married Jon Lewis on Dec. 22, 2001. Darcy teaches in Huntington Beach, Calif., and Jon is a police officer for the Newport Beach Police Department. ... Shawn Lorenzo has been living in Atlanta since July 2000. He is mar– ried to wife Poliala and they have one son. Kalrn'ike Lorenzo. Both are air traffic conttollers. They hope to move back to Hawaii in a couple of years.... James Meyer has worked in the biotechnology industry since graduation. Currently he is research and development chemistry supervi– sor for Biosite Inc. In his spare time, he earned his pilot's license and Right insrructor's certificate and enjoys Hy– ing over San Diego. He planned to pursue an M.B.A. degree from UCLA starting chis fall. ... Kristi Miller-Ulrich married husband Lucius Ulrich on March 10, 2001 in San Anronio. She received a master's degree in anthropology from the University ofTexas at San Antonio. She works as a historic archaeologist for the Center for Archaeological

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1000 UNDERGRADUATE ALUMNI Tamera Ashcraft graduated with her master of science degree in marine science from the University ofTexas at Austin, in May.. .. Eric Danielson is currently employed "back home" in Kansas working for the Lenexa Chamber of Commerce. He and fiancee Allison have a yellow Labrador retriever named Scout. "Looking forward to USO advancing in nexr year's NCAA Tournament. Go Toreros!" he writes.. .. David Denes has been working as rhe operations manager for rwo radio stations in Los Angeles. "Life is good," he writes. He reports that he bought a house jusr over a year ago and is trying to travel "but not as much as I like," he says.... Jessica Gray has played professional basket– ball for club reams in England, New Zealand and Australia since graduat– ing. She recently returned from play– ing in the WNBL in Australia for a ream called rhe Sydney Flames... . Heather Hanley attends Loma Linda Un iversity School of Medicine and is in the class of 2007. She looks forward to a career in pediatric medi– cine, possibly neurosurgery.. .. Tiffany Jackson moved to Austin, Texas, after graduaring to work as a producer at Fax7 News. She started producing weekend shows and moved her way up to morning show producer. In 2002, she moved to New York and has been working for Fox News Channel as a freelance associate producer. Since Ocrober 2002, she's written for a variety of shows on Fox's cable news station. She reports rhar she often works with fellow alumnus Ian Rafferty '93 , who is a field producer for Fox.. .. Tawnya Lydick (M.A. '02) is rhe teacher for the visually impaired in the Gtossmont Union High School District. ... Tasha Matthews Bartley is going back to school to get a master's degree in communica– tion at Portland State University.... Jessica Merrigan received her J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law in May, and has

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